I had this today. It’s fine. Hits all the necessary brisket notes: beefy, tender, smoky. Doesn’t have as much of a bark as I like, but that’s going to be kind of impossible when it sits in the same kind of warm tubs as all of Chipotle’s other proteins (then gets surrounded by wet things in your burrito/bowl). Not sure…

I wonder at what point “it’s unrealistic for someone who wants to play your game can just go into the store and buy the machine you can play it on” is going to affect the development cycles of games that are looking to push “Next Gen” technology.

I guess the hope is that the temporal shift affecting holidays is monotonic so we’re just living in a transitory period.  So now we get the Christmas cereal 3 months before Christmas, and may be next year we get it in June, but eventually the Halloween stuff for, say, 2028 will start appearing in the fall of 2027 so…

I will take any vaccine for anything however the medical experts want to administer it.  I’m not totally comfortable with “inject the vaccine directly into the eyeball” but I am willing to make that sacrifice.

It’s of the breakfast variety of burrito, so it’s all just stuff that’s safe raw (cheese) or you cook on the same flat top you cook everything else (hash browns, eggs, cured meats). You just roll it up in a tortilla and dress it with some sauces that are shipped in.

So I get why the quesadilla is only available if you order through the website/app, because it takes longer to prepare than a burrito/bowl/taco.  But there’s no justification for a protein to be exclusive to the app, other than “we want to tempt you into giving us your data” right?

Presumably they buy the sandwich from CFA, keep it warm, then get it to you.  So you’re still giving money to CFA, a thing you probably should not do.

If I was going to get the image of a chef tattooed on my body, you can be absolutely certain it would be the Swedish Chef.

If the Wrath of the Righteous Video Game resembles the Pathfinder Adventure Path on which it is based, you can basically make random choices that make sense in the moment and roflstomp the opposition. The mythic rules were not well balanced, but it was kind of fun being the most gonzo things around in the most gonzo…

I bet it’s a pretty good potato, I’d eat there.  Getting the full culinary view of the place also involves eating some of it’s normcore trash, after all.

It’s probably too thick, but if you’ve had a tenderloin sandwich in Iowa then you know that a breaded thing that is barely covered by the bun is A-OK.

My Cheesecake Factory strategy hinges on the fact that I was thoroughly conditioned from my youth to never order appetizers, drinks, or dessert when I’m at a restaurant, and that I don’t like cheesecake.

It really depends on how convenient “just dropping into Taco Bell” is in your life circumstances.  In grad school, there was a Taco Bell literally across the street from my office building so that would be really appealing.  Now, though, I have to get in the car to get to the Bell which is a hard pass.

Tobey Maguire kind of works in Spider-Man since he looks like 29, but he acts like he’s emotionally like 8 years old, which is weird enough to put the audience of balance.

The genius of AEW dynamite is that it is a show in which things happen and those things are interesting. That the talent seems fairly pleased to be there certainly doesn’t hurt.

I know who Nelly is, so this might be evidence that BK is is out of touch.

I gotta say “eating raw vegetables processed at ‘big chain’ scale” is always kind of like playing roulette with your microbiome.  So I’m not sure the Sweetgreen guy has what’s best for me in mind.

I have prickly pears in a sandbox in my back yard.  Can I eat those?

I’m seconding the people who said “Nailed It”.  My baking fundamentals are very strong, and on that show everybody creates a disastrous monstrosity, but “who wins” always comes down to “whose creation actually tastes the best”.  So I can dominate the competition by remembering things like “greasing and flouring the…

So this is certainly some sort of chef-chosen collection of ingredients that is then blended, piped into a mold, and cryovacced in order to sterilize/set it. That being the case, why aren’t the molds more fun shapes? A cube would give you six sides to sear and a tetrahedron would be more fun to eat.